January: • January 1 – Latvia will officially adopt the euro currency and will become the eighteenth Eurozone country.February: • February 7–23 – The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.March: • March 27 – Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes) will reach perihelion.April: • April 29 – An annular solar eclipse will occur.May: • May 29 – Faye’s Comet will reach perihelion.June: • June 12 – July 13 – The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil. • The Sky City skyscraper is planned for completion in Changsha, Hunan, China.August: • August 24 – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will cross the orbit of Neptune after travelling for over eight years. New Horizons is scheduled to reach its mission target, Pluto, in 2015.September: • September 18 – The Scottish independence referendum will be held. • The first unmanned flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is scheduled to be launched in September 2014.November: • November 9 – The Catalan independence referendum will be held.December: • December 31 – The United States and the United Kingdom are (were?) supposed to officially withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, marking the end of their 13-year involvement in the Afghan Civil War.